William "Bill" Rice

William Rice (1931 – January 23, 2006) was a member of the avant-garde art scene in the East Village in New York City for many years.

A painter, film actor, and an unaffiliated scholar, Bill Rice was one of the central figures in the various bohemian enclaves that gathered and overlapped in the Lower East Side of the 1960s. Among his diverse achievements, Rice worked with noted Gertrude Stein expert Ulla Dydo on Gertrude Stein: The Language That Rises: 1923–1934 (2003), an essential study of the author's writing process, using her notebooks and manuscripts.[1]

He was born in Vermont and graduated from Middlebury College. He moved to Manhattan's East Third Street in 1953, and died in Manhattan of lung cancer on January 23, 2006.[2][3]

Filmography

Works
  • Two Paintings by Bill Rice, Evocation I and Evocation II, BOMB Magazine (Fall, 1984)
  • Two Paintings by Bill Rice, Travel Sketchbook and Hamburg, 1982, BOMB Magazine (Winter, 1983)
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gollark: I mean, you can't effectively use slaves for anything beyond menial labour, because then they need to do thinking and have some autonomy and actually receive stuff beyond bare necessities.
gollark: Although many tasks don't need generalized robots as much as big motors or something.
gollark: On the other hand, modern robot-y systems need microprocessors, which are stupidly expensive and hard to make, and humans wouldn't.
gollark: Currently they mostly can't, although the tech *is* improving and the logistics of supplying electricity and spare parts might be better than having to deal with food and everything else.

References
  1. Yau, John (Jul–Aug 2011). "Bill Rice: Paintings & Works on Paper". The Brooklyn Rail.
  2. Levin, Sara G. (February 2006). "Bill Rice, 74, cult film actor, artist and writer". The Villager. Retrieved June 28, 2015.
  3. Cotter, Holland (January 29, 2006). "Bill Rice, 74, Downtown Artist, Actor and Impresario, Dies". New York Times. Retrieved June 28, 2015.


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